Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19

| clpllOn Ii},UDU 1uEISlltlUS were
massacred, and 700. 900 more Of them
died from Punishment and exposure.
Witness the sufferings of the Waldenscs,
of the Albigenses, Of the HISTORIANS.
Witness ST. Bartholomew massacre.
Witness the Duke Of Alya driving out
f life $4,000 Christians, Witness
Herod. and Nero, and Decius, and Hill
dcbrand, and Torquemado, and Earl OF
Montfcrt, and Lord CIavcrhousc, who
when told that he must give account
| for his cruelties SAID; Il have no need
account to man, and as for God
Will take Him in my " hands" A
red line runs through the chsrch his
tory for nineteen hundred years, a line
of blood. Not by the hundreds OF
thousands, but by the millions must we
count those slain fol Christ's sake.
No wonder that John Milton put the
groans of martyrs TO ar immortal tune,
writing:
"Avengc, @ Lord, thy slaughtered saints,
whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold
The smoke Of martyrs homes and
martyrs bodies if rolling up all al
once would have eclipsed the MONDAY
sun. and turned the brightest day the
world ever saw into Il midnight.
Two is she that cometh up out of the
wilderness like pillars of smoker
Has persecution ceasedP Ask that
young man who is trying to be a
Christian in n store or factory where
from morning TO night he is the butt Of
all the mean witticlsms of unbelieving
employees. Ask that wife whose hus-
band makes her fondness for the house
Of God and even her kneelingprayor by
| the bedside Il derision, and is no more
tit for her holy com~panionship than Il
filthy crow would be Il fit companion
for 4 robin or a golden oriole. Com
| promise with the world and surrender
30 its conycntionalitieS and it may let
YOU alone, but al who will live godly
in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution.
BE n th~eatre-going, card-playing, wine
drinking, round dancing Christian, and
| YOU may escape criticism and social
pressure. But be an up and down,
out and out follower OF Christ, and
| wording win wink TO wording as he
| speaks you name, and you will be put
in many Il doggerel and snubbed by
! those not worthy to blacken your Oldest
shoes. When the bridge M Ashtabula
broke and let down the most Of the car
load of passengers to instant death Mr..
Il. u. Bliss was seated on side OF
the isle of the car writing down a
| Christian song which he was compos-
inc. and on the other side a group OF
men were playing cards. Whose
landing place in eternity would you
prefer-that of 2. p. Bliss, the Gospel
singer, or Of the card playersP
Victor Hugo in his book entitled
''Ninety-three," says: Nothing calmei
than smoke but nothing more startling,
There are peaceful smokes and there
are evil ones. The thickness and color
of a line of smoke make the whole diff
ference between war and peace, be
tween fraternity and hatred. The
whole happiness of man or his com
plete misery is sometimes expressed il
this Thin vapor which the wind scatter,
at will The great Frenchman wa'
right, but | 90 further and say that a:
the kingdom of God advances like pill
lars of smoke. the black volumes belch
ing from batteries of war anC
pouring out from portfolios of ships viii
vanish from the sky.
A distinguished gentleman of the lat
pra, tpt1 M rnnnnftu that thrah m, IN
coin proposed to avoid IL civil con
ilict by purchase of all the slaves o
the south and setting then
free. He calculated what woulC
be n reasonable price foI
them and, when the number Of million,
of dollars that would be required forsuci
a purpose was announced, the PROPOSE
ton was secuted, and the north would
not have made the offer and the soutl
would not have accepted it if made
But" said my military friend, 1.-THE
war went On and just the number o.
millions of dollars that Mr.. Lincoln
calculated would have been enough Il
make a reasonable purchase of all III,
slaves. were spent in war, besides al
the precious lives that were hurled
away in the two hundred and fifty bat
ties.| In other words, there ought TO b.
some other way for men to settle their
controversies without wholesal,
butchcry.
The church Of God will yet become
the arbitor Of nations. Ii the world
would allow Il, it woald to-day step in
between Germany and France and set.
tie the trouble about Alsace and Lor-
raine, and between Russia and Bull
garia, and between England and her
antagonists, and between all the other
nations that are dying at each Others
threats. and command peace and dis.
band armies, and harness for the pillow
the war horses now being hitchcd t,
ammunition wagons. or saddlcd for cav
airy charge. That time must come. o
through the increased facility for shoot
ing men and blowing up cities ant
whclming hosts to instant death, 5,
that we can Kill a regiment easier thai
we could once Kill "A company, and Xii
a brigade easier than we could ono
kills regiment, the patent offices o
the world more busy than ever il
ro,yrotyipo now p~uuinprt az Iasfrro